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Regarding the above, not sure what happen since previously I could play any files I download from youtube, be it avi or mp4.
Now I cannot play any mp4 file downloaded from youtube but no issue to play any other file format (avi, mov, flv using VLC. Some other mp4 files that was downloaded from different source other than youtube are able to play.
This command in a terminal should do:
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras
(As already explained by David Foerster, but this should be an answer, not a comment.)
You can set the required input video settings in VLC for your YouTube clip in either of two ways:
Details of both options below:
Altering input video locally using the command-line:
You can request a specific video size from youtube from the commandline by using the --preferred-resolution option. This has the bonus of not changing vlc global settings, so settings specified in this manner are not saved. Settings for this are (seen in cvlc -h):
So for your clip the following works nicely:
cvlc --preferred-resolution 240 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Oo4kBHBNU
Altering input video globally using the GUI:
You can also alter the input video settings globally from the GUI preferences as shown in the screenshot below:
These settings are saved for subsequent vlc usage and will be saved in your vlc configuration file: ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc. As an example: this is added for a preferred resolution of 240:
# Preferred video resolution (integer)
preferred-resolution=240
You have to love vlc :)
Best Answer
Download and install all G streamer libraries to play different video formats in VLC using this command
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-*